A Conversation About ‘Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD’

Tonight, Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD premieres on ABC. Due to the shows connection to The Avengers, obviously there has been a lot of hype surrounding the show on the internet, and the show apparently had a very positive response during Comic Con. However, as proven again and again, the internet is largely an echo chamber and a show like this at Comic Con is like preaching to the choir.

As someone who likes to follow television trends, I am curious how well this show is going to do on a major network. True, people loved The Avengers, but are they willing to tune in on a weekly basis for a show based in that world? Granted, other superhero shows like Arrow and Smallville have proved to be successes, but those were on a large network like ABC which expects huge numbers.

So, to consider how a non-comic fan would react to a show like this, I put together a fun, hypothetical conversation average folks might have about Agents of SHIELD.

Note: this is all in good fun. Don’t get your undies in a twist.

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Person 1: Are you going to watch Agents of SHIELD?

Person 2: What’s that?

Person 1: It’s a show that is spun off from The Avengers.

Person 2: Really? That’s cool. Is Robert Downey Jr. going to be in it?